Asylum: Deportation

David Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been removed from the UK under the Dublin Convention in each year since 2010.

James Brokenshire: The information requested is shown in the following table:
	
		
			 People removed 
			  Number 
			 2010 1,449 
			 2011 1,308 
			 2012 970 
			 2013 1,020 
			 Note: The figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols. 
		
	
	Removals fell in 2011 and 2012 because we stopped transferring asylum applicants to Greece under the Dublin Regulation in 2010. This was because it was found conditions there amounted to a breach of article 3 of ECHR. There then followed similar litigation around conditions in Italy, but we are still able to effect transfers there.